Appendix A: Interviews

Iren Ahlund, FUB, the Swedish Association for People with Learning Difficulties

Adrienne Asch, PhD, Director, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University

Dara Baldwin, MPA, Policy Analyst, National Council on Independent Living

Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, PhD, Chair of Department and Vice Director of the Center for Disability Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland

Kelly Buckland, Executive Director, National Council on Independent Living

Olegario “Ollie” D. Cantos VII, National Disability Rights Activist

Ruth Colker, JD, Professor and Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, Moritz College of Law

Marc Fagan, PsyD, Associate Director, Thresholds

Diane Garreau, Director, Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Child Welfare Program Emergency Children’s Shelter

Bernadette Irwin, Assistant Department Director, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Family Support Services, and Co-president of the Association for Successful Parenting

Susan Jones, Director of Positive Parenting, United Arc of Franklin and Hampshire Counties, and Co-president of the Association for Successful Parenting

Katherine Kaplan, MSEd, Assistant Director, Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Megan Kirshbaum, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, Through the Looking Glass, and Co-director of the National Center for Parents with Disabilities and Their Families

Traci LaLiberte, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota

Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota

Jennifer Mathis, Deputy Legal Program Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

David McConnell, PhD, Professor of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada

Andrew Philips, JD, Staff Attorney, National Association of the Deaf

Mary Trimble Norris, Director, American Indian Child Resource Center

Anita Silvers, PhD, Professor and Chair of Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University

Deborah Kent Stein, Chair, Blind Parents Interest Group of the National Federation of the Blind

Susan Yuan, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Disability and Community Inclusion, University of Vermont

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